True

[Skip Montanaro]

    Dan> Thanks Peter, that will do the trick. Just  wondering though why you
    Dan> chose to code the opposite values and not as

    Dan> def boolean2String(boolVal):
    Dan>     return {True:'1', False:'0'}[boolVal]

What if boolVal isn't actually True or False?  An empty list is considered a
false value.  To get a boolean from that, you throw 'not' in front of it:

    >>> []
    []
    >>> not []
    True
    >>> not 23
    False

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